Improvement in preserving meat



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HENRIK GAHN, OF UPSA LA, SWEDEN.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRESERVING MEAT.

Specification formir g part of Letters Patent No. 99,lS0, dated January25, 1870.

compound, the Object of which is to preserve meat, fish, organicsubstances, &c., and consists of the following ingredients: Aseptin(which is a compound consisting of boracic acid, gumtragacanth, commonsalt, and chloric acid) sugar, and alum. j be proportion of thedifferent ingredients of which the compound consists may be variedaccording to the nature of the object to be preserved; but, as a generalrule, I will name the following 'proportions: One part aseptineightyparts boracic acid, (BO +3HO;) ten parts gumtragacantli, (U H -l-16HO;)eight parts salt, (Ol,Na;) two parts chloric acid, (O1,H+l6 HO.) 'Onepart sugar, (U H O J One-tenth to one part alum, (S0 K0+SO AI O +2AI H,3H0.)

I may employ the compound in a liquid or solid form. In the first case(when liquid) I dissolve the compound in water or other fluid, and theobject to be prepared is dipped, washed, or laid down in the solution,or the solution is injected into it. When the compound is used in asolid form the ingredients of which it consists are pulverized and wellmixed, and in the proportion above stated. The object to be preserved iseither sprinkled well or rubbed with the compound, and will, after theoperation, retain its natural savory, fresh taste.

Having thus described my invention, what I I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patcut, is-

The compound for preserving meat, fish, organic substances, 850.,substantially as herein described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 15th day ofDecember,

HENR. GAHN.

Witnesses:

J ERE A. EYWING, J. K. L. ENEMAN.

